Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nitty-Gritty. G.M. is now trying to foster a similar attitude in its Chevrolet gear-and-axle plant on the fringe of one of Detroit's worst slums. Its solution: an eleven-member committee of overseers that does for the unmotivated unemployed what Alcoholics Anonymous does for the overly motivated drinker. When one of die newly hired slum dwellers misses the whistle on Monday morning, one of the eleven goes to his house, wakes him up, dresses him, gives him a cup of coffee-and delivers him at the factory gate...
That was not good enough for the Turkish Cabinet. It rejected the Greek reply as "unsatisfactory" and gave the Turkish military the signal to speed up preparations. Antiaircraft batteries suddenly appeared around Ankara, and troops in full battle dress lugged their gear aboard a 37-ship invasion fleet that assembled in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderon, only 40 miles from Cyprus. Greece's alarmed government and military leaders gathered at King Constantine's Tatoi Palace near Athens to draft a final appeal to Turkey...
...ranging (more than 5,000 miles) ship that resembles Britain's Vickers VC-10, the 186-passenger plane now rivals the best in Western commercial aircraft. To meet U.S. navigational requirements, it has been rigged out with RCA antennas and other American-made avionics gear. And to judge from last week's proving flight, at least, its lissome Russian stewardesses seem ordered to U.S. specifications as well. In fact, about the only fault that Federal Aviation Agency officials could find was that the Russian crew's command of English-the official international airways language-was something less...
Company training programs are the biggest area of student dissatisfaction. The "over-hire" method, or the survival-of-the-fittest program is one big reason for dissatisfaction. The other big reason is the inability to gear training programs to the potentials of the student...
...went on location at the Marksburg Castle near Koblenz, Germany. The scene, which required three days of near round-the-clock filming, shows an angry mob of villagers storming the castle, battering down the doors, and chasing a mad scientist and seven assorted monsters who hurriedly gather their gear and escape in a Volkswagen station wagon. The only dialogue is an announcer's voiceover: "If you've created a rather large family and you have an awful lot to carry, chances are a normal station wagon won't be large enough. Maybe you ought to consider something...